Friendship Star

Meeting Location: West Freeway Church of Christ

1900 S. Las Vegas Trail Fort Worth, TX 76108

President: Lynda McGee 817-343-9124

lyndamcgee@sbcglobal.net

Email: FortWorthQG@gmail.com
Website: www.fwqg.org
Location: PO Box 121942, Fort Worth, TX 76121
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December 17, 2024. Social 6pm. Meeting starts at 6:30pm.
No Show and Tell this month!

Board Meetings are the last Thursday of the Month.

The location for meetings for this year will be at Lynda's house or via Zoom.

If you have something that needs to be brought to the attention of the Board, or you would like to discuss the issue in person, please contact a Board Member.

Board Meetings are open to all but only board members can vote at the meetings.

WOW, another year older…and wiser? I am really enjoying the colder weather and am looking forward to Christmas with ‘most’ of my family (the youngest can’t make it from England). We will be

VRBOing it again this year in Austin. At least I don’t have to clean my house. I will be hanging my Christmas Tree Quilt again and maybe taking a couple of nap quilts for that ‘homey’ feel. I hope that you all have a wonderful holiday in whatever form it takes.

Due to time constraints, there will not be a show and tell. Please save that wonderful quilt for the January meeting. Remember to bring a friend, snacks, money and a bag to carry home your ‘loot’ for the December meeting. See all the details in the Program section. It’s a first for our guild and

I’m expecting a lot of fun and a little bit of crazy!

SECURITY !!!

It’s time to remind everyone that …

When you leave, make sure you exit with SOMEONE. It’s the buddy system. There are occasionally people cutting through the parking lot at night and we don’t want any issues. Everything seems a little more scary at night if you are alone.

ALSO…the church would prefer that we only use one door for entering and leaving the church. So we

will be using the KITCHEN entrance only.

If you do NOT have mobility issues, please use the parking spots further from that door, and leave the close ones for those in need. Thank you.

December Christmas Extravaganza!

Come One, Come ALL to our December 17, 2024 FWQG meeting for fun bidding on FABULOUS QUILTING BUNDLES! And to share finger foods brought by fellow guild members.

It's time for a new, wild Christmas treat. A fundraiser, thanks to Debbie Miles and her family. Fine fabric, great Rulers, all neatly bundled with ribbon as well as Tutto bags, a sewEzi table and a serger machine... all for your pleasure! We will bid for these items by purchasing Raffle Tickets (each worth 25 cents) in $10 & $20 dollar bags to use for "shopping ". Please bring exact change or check.

Ticket sales begin at 6:15. Drawings begin at 6:45.

And yes, bring a friend or two. This is a fundraiser, after all.

The long white tables will be lined with delightful bundles of quilting fabric neatly bundled together with ribbon, and a paper bag taped in front of it for depositing your ticket(s).

A winner from each bag will be selected. Come and rejoice when your number is called!! Bring a Big Bag to take home all your winnings. We will have 50 Bundles for bidding, so bring yourself and a buddy to catch up with your Quilting family, have a blast and snack on favorite finger foods.

Janet Swords Program VP and Yvette Richey VP in Training

1/21/2025 Officer Dwayne Kelley dwayne.kelley@tccd.edu

2/18/2025 Pat Seth -- Intro: Five inch is a Cinch - zoom presentation

Janet Swords

Program VP and

Yvette Richey VP in Training

Hope to see you all at the meeting! If you have not yet renewed your membership, please bring payment to the December meeting. If you are unable to attend and have not yet paid, please mail a check made out to FWQG to the address following:

Shelley Clauss - FWQG

6428 Rockrose Trail

Fort Worth TX 76123

Membership Dues are $40 per year. $35 if you are 65 or older.

The theme for NTQF 2025 is “There’s No Place Like Home”. So you can start working on your ‘theme’ quilt.

Molly Risewick has volunteered to be FWQG show rep next year and will be recruiting additional guild members to fill additional roles.

And the winner was…. Jean Moulder.

We have a raffle quilt every 2 years, so please consider volunteering to manage our 2026 raffle quilt.

Send Sunshine and Shadows to Anne Houpt: annhoupt@aol.com

Thank you to everyone who helped with the setup and cleanup at the November meeting. We had a great program honoring Veterans and presenting them with their beautiful quilts.

We are looking forward to the Christmas party that the program committee is planning. Make that favorite finger food to share, then join us for food, fun, and fellowship. Always a fun time.

December Birthdays

12-04 Jonquele Jones

12-06. Cheryl Russell

12-13. Kay Brumbalow

12-14 Janie Mooneyham

12-18 Lynda McGee

12-24. Gillian Coleman

12-24. Dave Beers

12-29. Barbara Hughes

Marilyn Smiith

EMBROIDERY BEE

We have set our meeting time to 2 pm on the last Thursday of the month.

We continue to rotate our meeting site. New members are welcome.

This month, we will share items featuring pumpkins.

Contact Wanda Edmunds or Sarah Tutt for more information.

FRAYED KNOTS

Our December meeting will be a Christmas lunch at Olive Garden

TIGHT KNOTS --

November Meeting

Tight Knots November meeting was held at Patti’s Last Resort. Most of our meeting

was deciding where our next annual meeting would be. We discussed what was important to us in a meeting place and when we wanted to meet. Then we picked a new place in Stephenville and are looking forward to going there next year. Then we set up who would host when/ which month and what our birthday fabrics would be. Next, we discussed our charity choices next year, and what we would do.

We moved on to show and tell. Everything went so fast for me, I didn’t get good notes so basically we turned in 15 NICU quilts, several wheelchair quilts, some baby quilts for the hospital, and 25 pillowcases for safe haven. We have been busy this year. There were lots of oohs and aahs over the beautiful fabrics and patterns.

The rest of our retreat was spent sewing, helping each other make choices for fabrics and positions for blocks, and of course, lots of good things to eat. Many new projects were started and finished. like it retreats, fun was had by all.

P. Ford

December Meeting

Our meeting started with lots of conversations about various topics as usual. This month everybody was talking about all the old men they were taken care of, and how they were falling down. And I thought to myself, we are all just getting old. So we moved on to show and tell. Cheri Bigham showed a mini quilt that she bought at an estate sale. It had many, unusual stitches and a saying on it. Barbara Hughes looked up on the Internet and found out it was from a British children’s poem. It was wonderful we all want it. Margo Grunseich presented her first jelly roll quilt, she also asked how to build a design wall. And each of us had a different idea for her. Pat Wagers showed some Crosstitch she had made. We all marveled at the tiny tiny stitches. She also showed a quilt of valor; it was beautiful with friendship stars. Judi Janes started a baseball quilt that she plans to have finished by Christmas. It’s a gift for her son. Good luck Judi. Cecilia Villa is making a memory bear for someone from her husband’s flannel shirts. This is for the widow’s daughter. It is going to be so wonderful and it was so soft. The rest of us had nothing to show because it’s Christmas and there’s a lot going on. So we moved on to the important stuff red velvet cake, Yum and nuts and candies. Pat Wagers spoiled us big-time. And after a wonderful game of LRC where Patricia Ford won everybody‘s white on white fat quarters, we all wish everybody a merry Christmas and moved on to all the other stuff you’re supposed to be doing this time of year.

Thank you, Pat Wagers for a wonderful meeting and and great food. Also from our bee to all our guild members — have a blessed holiday season and try not to stress out too much. Just sit back and enjoy it.

One of the most fun parts of belonging to a Guild is getting to know other quilters. But, there aren’t many opportunities to actually get to SEW and learn from one another, except in a bee. Most of the guild bees have been around for many years and don’t have openings for many newcomers. If you want to get know more of your fellow members, start a new bee!

General Guidelines

• Start with the people sitting near you at Guild or advertise in the bee section of the newsletter, or on the FB page.
• A place to meet: dining room table, living room, playroom, apartment clubhouse, nearby church… You may want to rotate hosting among those with enough space.
• Monthly meeting time for 1.5-4 hours. Some groups may also have periodic all-day project days or retreats.
• Some groups organize around a common interest: appliqué, modern, art, charity projects, while some are based on proximity.
• Start simply and see how the group’s dynamics play out through time. There are lots of activity ideas online.

Shelley has already begun to take reservations for the 2025 retreat, which will be April 3-6, 2025.

Bev Ramsey was a charter member of the guild, a past president, a teacher and a friend. We lost her way too early. The Bev Ramsey fund was set up to help those in need enjoy the things she loved very much, retreats and workshops.

Quilts of Valor

I hope everyone enjoyed the QOV award ceremony last month. Thank you for attending and making everyone feel welcome. We have officially awarded over a hundred quilts since our Group formed! The number is 102 to be exact. This is all possible because of your support!

The QOVF National Sew Day is February 1, 2025. We will gather at The Berry Patch Quilt Shop again and sew blocks and quilt tops from 10-3. There is room for only eight people to sew, so I’ll have a sign-up sheet at the January meeting. Current QOV members are encouraged to go to the website and register for the sew day. They will be giving away prizes and you have to be registered to be eligible. If you register during the month of December, you will automatically be entered to win one of four prizes (these prizes are separate from the sew day prizes).

If you are not yet a Quilts of Valor member, it’s easy to join and it only costs $10 per year. Go to www.QOVF.org and join Group #84516.

Wishing each of you many blessings this holiday season.

Cecilia Buckholz

817-480-7606

Lovies are used for preemie babies and their mother's so they can become familiar with each other's scent.

If you would like to make one (or 100) take two pieces of 14" square fabric - one cotton, and one flannel. Sew them right sides together, leaving a gap to turn. Turn, then topstitch around the entire piece.

Beverly Peterson collects them at Guild meetings to give to Harris Downtown for their NICU unit. We delivered about 150 of them last week, and have asked a representative of the unit to speak briefly about what they mean to the families.

The Tight Knots Bee donated 15 NICU quilts which were delivered in November. Also delivered were 12 quilts of assorted sizes - baby, wheelchair, and lap- which were donated by members of the guild.

Thanks to all who contributed! JPS is always grateful for our donations.

Respectfully submitted,

Judi Janes and Carolyn Hughes

NICU Co-Chairpersons

NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) Quilts

One of our community service projects is making NICU quilts for John Peter Smith Hospital. NICU quilts are 36” x 36” prewashed cotton quilts. These are placed on the incubators in the intensive care unit and become the property of the baby/baby’s family. As some of you may know, the Tight Knots Quilt Bee makes NICU quilts each year as one of their community service projects. Maybe your bee would consider doing the same.

JPS has also requested other items for their patients:

Baby Items:

Receiving blankets and baby quilts – of all sizes

Layettes and Isolettes no smaller than 52”x56”

Cozy Cub Slipcover (tubular coverlet) See the link below for a sample of this item. 40 inches long

9 inches – circumference for small

11 inches – circumference for large

CozyCub–Dandle.LionMedical www.dandlelionmedical.com

Adult Items:

These items are mainly used for patients undergoing chemotherapy at the JPS cancer center and geriatric patients.

Adult quilts or blankets (quilted or fleece)

Ostomy bag covers

Small heart-shaped pillows for breast cancer patients to place under their arms after surgery

Submitted by: Judi Janes and Carolyn Hughes – NICU Co-Chairpersons

More information on these is on the following website:

https://www.jpshealthnet.org/community/volunteeropportunities/other-opportunities-to-serve

The minutes are attached as files to increase readability.
The treasurer's report will be released later.

We have vacancies in the committees that really need to be filled. Please look at the list carefully and let us know how you can help our guild.

Officers and Committees

2024-2025 Board

President - Lynda McGee 817-343-9124 lyndamcgee@sbcglobal.net

President Elect - Cecilia Buckholz 817-480-7606 cbuckholz1@gmail.com

VP Programs - Janet Swords 817-551-7003 janetswords@outlook.com

Yvette Richey 817-559-5065 richey57yr@gmail.com

Secretary - Becky Reavis 817-475-4912 alrubaiie1@hotmail.com

Treasurer - Pat Wagers 817-821-1137 pwagers@sbcglobal.net

Member at Large - Dave Beers 817-666-8404 quiltsbydave@gmail.com

Alice Clayton 682-201-7088 aliceclayton@gmail.com

Parliamentarian - Molly Risewick 817-721-0500 molly.risewick@gmail.com

2024-2025 Committees

Greeter - Barbara Dumas dumasfamily5@sbcglobal.net

Hospitality - Marilyn Smith marilynsmith1934@gmail.com

NICU - Judi Janes judi.janes@yahoo.com

Carolyn Hughes hughes1668@att.net

Hugs - Mary Lou Nelson ron.marylou@sbcglobal.net

Molly Risewick

Lovies - Beverly Peterson bpete1900@yahoo.com

Debbie/Janie Legacy - Sue Hilgardner gohawksrockchalk@gmail.com

Membership - Shelley Clauss shelley.clauss@att.net

second needed

Newsletter - Sarah Tutt sarahtutt@yahoo.com

Quilt Show Rep - Molly Risewick molly.risewick@gmail.com

Quilt Show Tshirts - needed

Quilt Show Minis - needed

Quilt Show Booth - Grace Stroud gstroud49@gmail.com

Raffle Quilt 2026 - needed

Retreats - Shelley Clauss shelley.clauss@att.net

Show N Tell - Alice Clayton

Sunshine/Shadows - Ann Houpt annhoupt@aol.com

Webmaster - Dorene Joyce dorenegaye.joyce@gmail.com

Wanda Edmunds dooleymac@gmail.com

Smores Administrator - Shelley Clauss shelley.clauss@att.net

Facebook Administrator - Becky Reavis alrubaiie1@hotmail.com

Saginaw Thursday Quilters meets every Thursday from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm at Joyce Spindor Community Center, 620 Park Center Blvd, Saginaw TX 76179.

We hand quilt for our members and clients. We take a snack break at 10:00, hosted by members for a month at a time.
Once a month we celebrate members’ birthdays. On third Thursday we have a themed luncheon.
Contact Kay Lotz, guild member, at 817-946-8286 (leave a message please) for more information.

Texas Quilt Museum, LaGrange, Texas

Check out their website http://www.texasquiltmuseum.org

We would love to put your advertisement in the newsletter. Personal item or business.

Short text -- $5 members, $10 non-members

Half page with one picture -- $10 members, $15 non-members

We accept ads from Members and local merchants.

Jackie is going to offer a one-day class on Wednesday, January 29, 2025, the day before Texas Quilting Camp.

DYE PAINTING FABRIC TO MAKE

TEXAS BLUE BONNETS

EASY REVERSE TRAPUNTO PROJECT

taught by Jacqueline Lehto

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

9 am to 3:00 pm

Where: West Freeway Church of Christ

1900 S. Las Vegas Trail

Fort Worth, TX 76108

Class Enrollment Fee: $45.00

A complete supply list will be provided upon enrollment.

(Not an official Guild event)

Jackie will be teaching fabric dye painting to begin to make our background fabric and then place a fun and beautiful Texas Blue Bonnet on the background with a reverse trapunto method. You should be completely done with the project with the exception of the quilting and binding during the class time.

Hope you'll join Jackie and me for this fun and creative class! I will have a sample at the December meeting.

For addtional informaton, Contact Dorene Joyce at 817-995-5740 or email her at dorene@dorenejoyce.com

After working with Smore for a while, we have run into limitations of the formatting available to us. It is easiest if the information is sent either as text, JPG, or PNG pictures. We can attach PDF documents to the newsletter, but they will appear as links and the reader must download them to their device to read them (easier if done from a laptop/desktop). DOC files that contain text only will be copied into the newsletter, but some of the formatting may be lost.

ALSO, WE NEED PICTURES!

If you are unable to bring your project to the meeting for Show and Share, send a picture to the guild address - with subject - Newsletter show n share. We can include a brief description